sinovels Chapter 506 Willow
Chapter 506 Willow
Who did Wu Mingde fall in love with?
Wu Youwei never knew.
Wu Mingde simply took him to a place, the Yuyingtang.
There are several courtyards in the Yuyingtang, where children of different ages live. One of the courtyards is dedicated to taking care of babies. There are many "nurse mothers" here, but at the same time, there are also many special skirts for babies that need to be washed.
Now in Shanghai there is a kind of foot-operated washing machine, made of wood, which is very convenient for washing clothes. It became popular in Daming. Here there are twelve foot-operated washing machines, used by twelve middle-aged women, who specialize in washing clothes.
When they came in, there happened to be a girl who came over with a dirty diaper in a big wooden basin and put it in front of a woman: "Aunt Li, this is Pinellia."
"Put it here. I've finished washing Xiaoliu's, and I'll wash Pinellia's when it's dry." Aunt Li is a strong woman with three children. She works here and earns a tael of silver and twenty The wages for a catty of rice and five catties of pork.
It is better than raising children at home. There is still a mother-in-law who can take care of her at home. The man is a bureaucrat, and he also has wages. Occasionally, there are rewards and money to supplement the family.
Every child here has a special train, which cannot be mixed.
Each person has a rope for drying the garment cloth, which is dedicated and not mixed.
When washing, they are also washed separately.
"Yangliu, Yingying's things are all dry, take them away!" An aunt over there shouted, "I'm going to breastfeed Jingjing."
"Oh, yes!" The girl responded, she was Yangliu, trotted over, found a clothesline tied with a small wooden sign with the name "Yingying", put away all the things on it, there were small clothes, There is also a skirt cloth.
The girl was wearing a paddy field dress that ordinary people would wear, with two long black braids, a small bun on her head, and a butterfly flower wrapped around a plain handkerchief.
There are only tea stalks poked in the ears; nothing is worn on the hands, not even the nails.
This girl has a pretty face and pure eyes, she is an ordinary girl.
Wu Youwei looked around, there were two other girls there, they were helping to dry the skirt cloth, but Wu Mingde just shook his head following Yang Liu's figure, and Wu Youwei understood: "It's the one named Yang Liu Girl?"
"En." Wu Mingde nodded.
"It's pretty good, why are you hesitating when you speak?" Wu Youwei was dissatisfied, which caused him to misunderstand.
"Yang Liu's background is not good..." Wu Mingde said in a low voice, "She...is an orphan who came out of the nursery..."
Yang Liu, she was abandoned for unknown reasons when she was born.
At that time, the Yuyingtang adopted her. An old couple guarded the gate of the Yuyingtang.
The two are fellow villagers in the capital, and with the addition of a man and a woman, they naturally get married and live together as a partner.
But neither of them have children yet.
I went to a doctor to see it, and there was even a retired old imperial doctor, who said that it was because when they were young, they hurt their foundations and it was difficult to have children.
They are all people who have experienced countless hardships and life and death. If there is no child, there will be no child. The old couple finally adopted a girl.
This girl is Yang Liu.
The surname Yang belonged to the old couple, and Liu was the name because she was found under a willow tree.
In this way, Yang Liu took care of the baby with a few little sisters and big ladies who grew up together in the nursery hall.
"Isn't this similar to Lian'er?" Wu Youwei thought the story was familiar: "Then why are you hiding it?"
"I'm afraid you are dissatisfied with her background. Although Mr. Yang and Mrs. Yang love Yang Liu like a treasure, they will definitely not let her be a concubine, and I don't want to wrong such a good girl." Wu Mingde said: "I want to marry her For a wife."
"How do you talk?" Wu Youwei was very dissatisfied: "Am I that kind of person? You see, Lian'er is not doing well now, and she is also an official wife. Now she has both children and her husband is promising, isn't it? Is it?"
"Her husband is a military general, and I am the number one scholar of the Sixth Head of State..." Wu Mingde said in shame: "All the Tanhua Langs of my class this year have found engagements with the daughters of fifth-rank officials. I... ...."
He is the number one scholar, and he is also the number one scholar in six poems, how dare he say casually that he likes the adopted daughter of an ordinary family?
"What's the matter? As long as she is a good person and treats you well, that's fine." Wu Youwei didn't care about this: "Besides, I'm also a concubine, and my mother is also the daughter of an ordinary family." As long as she has a good character, Born innocent, nothing else matters.
Wu Youwei didn’t just listen to what Wu Mingde said, he also went to inquire about it. The nursery hall is very large, and there are hundreds of abandoned babies living in this yard where the babies are taken care of. There are more than 100 people in charge of taking care of them. Wu Youwei I didn't ask all of them, but I also asked more than 100 questions, and they all said that the girl Yang Liu is diligent, serious in doing things, and most importantly, kind-hearted.
The old couple of the Yang family had no children, only Yang Liu was a precious girl, although she was not born, she was raised since she was a child. The old couple worked hard for many years, and saved a little money, and said they wanted to buy a decent dowry for Yang Liu.
If you have children in the future, give them a grandson to inherit the incense.
"Why don't you find a son-in-law at home?" Wu Youwei asked: "Isn't it usually a childbirth to recruit a husband?"
"The Yang family doesn't want Yang Liu to be wronged. There are not many good son-in-laws, so of course they want to marry off their daughter." The woman said: "Besides, Yang Liu is such a good girl, what kind of son-in-law do you want? It’s enough for a good man to marry and have children, and to support Lao Yang and his wife until their death.”
In ancient times, it was not a dignified thing for a son-in-law to come to the door, and it was a matter of no dignity. A man married into a woman's family just like a woman.
But anyone who has the ability to marry a wife will definitely not do so.
But incompetent, wimpy men will do this.
Besides, the Yang family doesn't have any property to recruit a husband by giving birth!
It's just an ordinary family, and this kind of family is almost everywhere in Beijing.
Wu Youwei nodded, then went to the head of the Yuyingtang and asked about the Yang family.
As Wu Mingde said, the old couple of the Yang family have worked in the Yuyingtang all their lives, and they have hundreds of taels of family property in their family. Next to the Beijing Zhongjiao Yuyingtang, there is a courtyard with two entrances.
The three of them are living a good life.
In the future, when Yangliu gets married and has a baby, life will definitely be better.
Wu Youwei was very satisfied with the results of his investigation. After returning home, he found Wantong and asked him to investigate.
After all, I am not a professional.
By the way, he interrogated his son: "How did you know each other?"
Wu Mingde's handsome face flushed red: "I've known each other since I was a child."
"Ah?" Wu Youwei blamed himself deeply: "I don't know?"
I don't care much about my son.
It turns out that Wu Mingde really knew her since he was a child, but he was a child at that time. Wu Mingde met when he went to deliver things with Lin Su's housekeeper. Later, they played together, but they separated when they were a little older. He has to go to school, and Yang Liu also needs to learn some things that girls should learn.
Until later, when he grew up, he met Yang Liu on the street.
She picked up an abandoned baby and went back to the nursery hall. Wu Mingde was there at the time and felt that she had love.
Later, the school organized the students to do good deeds, and they met again, but Yang Liu didn't know him very well, and since they were all grown up, there were men and women around, so they talked at most, and it was still in public.
The most frequent interaction between the two of them was when Yang Liu dried the skirt cloth of the little milk dolls, and he helped him with a washed wooden bucket or something... .
Wu Youwei laughed after hearing this, it was too innocent.
But the two of them must be a little careful, and Yang Liu must also like such a boy, because every time he goes there, Wu Mingde wears very simple and ordinary clothes, and no one knows that he is Wu Youwei, a scholar of Zuochunfang University. The son of a wealthy family, just treat him as a child of a wealthy family.
Three days later, the investigation results showed that what Wu Youwei saw and asked was true.
"But there is another interesting discovery, do you want to hear it?" Wantong asked Wu Youwei.
"What discovery?" Of course Wu Youwei wanted to ask.
"Yang Liu is not an orphan." Wan Tao said, "She has biological parents."
Wu Youwei was surprised: "Huh?"
Have biological parents, and become an orphan?
Next, he listened to a famous version of "Plum Blossom Burn". The difference is that Yang Liu is much better than Bai Yinshuang.
Moreover, her family is not a palace, she is not Ge Ge, and she is not greedy for wealth and status, and has no clear relationship with a certain Baylor.
She was adopted by the Yuyingtang, and became the adopted daughter of Lao Yang and his wife. She was well educated by Lao Yang and his wife.
"Anyway, they don't want a child anymore, so this child has nothing to do with them." Wu Youwei said: "Just pretend you don't know."
Because the decree has been promulgated, once the child is discarded, it has nothing to do with the child, otherwise everyone can't afford to raise the child and can still give birth to it. ?
The imperial court opened the Yuyingtang to raise your children for nothing?
Where is such a good thing!
Once it is discovered that they have abandoned their own children, according to the law, they will be punished with a hundred boards and a fine of silver.
It’s fine if they don’t get discovered, and the imperial court will not investigate whether the children in the nursery hall are abandoned babies or orphans one by one....
"That's probably a bit difficult." Wantong shook his head and said, "Yang Liu's appearance is exactly the same as that of the wife when she was young."
It can be seen from this that the lady in the main room is not very beautiful, and it is no wonder that she has to be favored like that concubine.
"What does their family do?" Wu Youwei wondered about this.
"It's a landlord. It's in Liujia Village, just below the Baiyun Temple on the eastern outskirts of Beijing. His family has 8000 acres of fertile land, four shops, and six small houses rented out in Beijing." Wan Tongdao: "The family has about [-] taels of silver Savings, the lady's natal family is an eighth-rank official."
In Beijing, there are as many eighth-rank officials as there are cow hairs.
"Oh, it's probably out of reach." Wu Youwei thought for a while: "Although we are not the kind of people who watch people order dishes, but not everyone can come in to congratulate... .”
The Wu family's threshold is not easy to enter, and it is recognized in Beijing. Since Wu Youwei became a Zuochunfang University scholar, and those who are either classmates or friends of his have joined the cabinet one after another, and they have become one of the first letters, After serving as the servant, he became even more popular. There were many people who wanted to ask him to give gifts and entrust relationship work, but none of them were really successful.
This is also what makes some people jealous.
On Wu Youwei's side, he simply asked someone to propose a marriage, but on the other side, the court didn't stop.
In Jiyou, the eunuch Zhang Shan supervised the military affairs, and Jiang Wan, Marquis of Dingxi, served as the commander-in-chief, and together with the governor Shangshu Yu Zijun, prepared for the defense of Qianliguan in the north.
Because Daming's border defense line has advanced at least a hundred miles away, don't underestimate the distance of a hundred miles, but how long is the entire border defense line?
We are going deep into the grassland.
In addition to the renovation of the garrison point, the defense of the Great Wall, etc., as well as the re-establishment of the mutual market location, before the Ming Dynasty won the battle and did not occupy the territory, but now it is fighting for every inch of land.
Because of the earthquake in the capital in the first month, after the spring sowing, Emperor Xianzong issued another call: summer and April Wuwu, prisoner.
And Wu Youwei, after rejecting the marriages of many families, sent a matchmaker to the Yang family to propose marriage.
But when the matchmaker came back, he said, "The other party disagrees!"
"Pfft!" Wu Youwei sprayed out the tea in his mouth at that time: "What did you say?"
"The other party disagrees." The matchmaker is an official matchmaker, a chubby woman in her 40s who looks very lucky.
It's just that the woman at this time has a helpless look on her face, and her joy and energy are less than three points.
"Why?" Wu Youwei took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, his eyes widened: "My Wu family...why did my son dissatisfy them?"
"It's because your family's threshold is too high, and their daughters can't afford it." The matchmaker also smiled bitterly: "When they first went, they thought that the slave family was going to match their daughter as a concubine, and they almost drove the slave family out. Later, when I heard that it was a marriage, and I was the main wife, I immediately shook my head like a rattle, saying that the son of a great scholar's family, the daughter of their family has no talent or virtue, let alone a good background, and I can't afford to be high, please choose another lady."
She also thought that the matter would be a matter of course, and the Wu family gave the most generous red envelopes. Her mother-in-law was the matchmaker for the Wu family's young ladies back then, and now she can be regarded as "a woman inheriting her mother's business".
It's just that she has been doing matchmaking for several years. She couldn't do it when she was young.
That seems frivolous and gossip.
It's all right now, the son is married to a wife, and she is trusted when she goes out as a matchmaker.
Who knows, this has been going smoothly, but when it comes to Lao Yang's house, it's stuck!
Wantong came in just in time, and after listening to it, he was not happy: "It's a good show to propose a marriage, but it's rejected? Are they so brave?"
The matchmaker shivered and shrank her neck.
As expected of being the commander of Jin Yiwei, this majesty, this evil spirit!
"Ai ai ai!" Wu Youwei hurried up and pawed Wantong twice: "Why are you angry? People are doing it for the sake of the girl, and who cares about the child. It's because I didn't think carefully. Let's go together and make another kiss."
Wantong's face was still stinky: "I'll go with you."
"Forget it." Wu Youwei refused flatly: "You are like this, suitable for door-to-door robbery. When their family refuses again, even if you don't go, I will let you go, be good!"
The matchmaker is even more dazzled, Master Wu is really good enough, not only can he teach His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but he can also restrain the commander of Jin Yiwei, huh?
The next day, Wu Youwei dressed neatly, brought a bunch of gifts, and went to Yang's house with the matchmaker.
It was probably because the matchmaker gave them too much of a blow yesterday, and now Mr. Yang and his wife are resting at home, and Yang Liu is taking care of them at home.
Yang Liu knew about the marriage proposal. As a girl, she didn't want to say much, but she also didn't want to marry into a noble mansion. where.......
Now the little girl is also frowning.
At this time, Wu Youwei came.
He also came with the matchmaker with a gift.
The house of the Yang family is small, but small and exquisite. It has all the necessary things, and it is very clean. The courtyard with two entrances is the kind of large two entrances, probably because it is a girl. There is also a small The cross courtyard is for my daughter, because there are many flowers and plants planted in it. It is the early summer season, and the flowers are in full bloom, and there is a faint fragrance.
It was Mr. Yang who opened the door. When he saw Wu Youwei and the matchmaker, his face immediately changed. But how could he, a commoner, mess with an official?
Besides, Wu Youwei is a bachelor of the Wu University, and he is a fifth-rank official. His future prospects are limitless as the emperor's teacher.
Mr. Yang already knew the identity of the other party from the matchmaker. When he saw the other party today, he was really afraid that he would not be able to protect his daughter.
But you can't let people not come in, whoever comes is a guest.
I had no choice but to let it in, but after being seated, Mrs. Yang only served boiled water.
Their family doesn't have any tea to entertain their guests, at most they serve some sugar water. It is estimated that such a big official would not like to drink sugar water...
Mrs. Yang stood behind Mr. Yang, her face was also a little sad, what is the fate of her daughter?How could such a nobleman take a fancy to it?
Wu Youwei didn't dislike it, he was thirsty, half a bowl of water for a bowl of water!
Mr. Yang: "...!!!"
This is really a high official, not a liar?
The elder sister of the matchmaker dryly explained the purpose of her visit, and it was nothing more than a few set of words: "The man's family is rich and powerful, your girl is Xiaojiabiyu, and the two children are just right for each other..." and so on, they are all gaudy and obedient.
But such dry words are not convincing.
After she finished speaking, Mr. Yang shook his head: "Thank you for your attention, but my girl has no virtue and talent, and is not worthy of a high school. Please choose Shuyuan as a wife."
The old man also said this when he heard other people reject relatives, so he remembered it, and it was just right to say it now.
When the matchmaker heard this, she became anxious: "Old Uncle Yang, I didn't say that it is a great blessing for your girl to marry me under such good conditions. You...why don't you do it for me?" What do you think about it, daughter?"
Such a good marriage, if she wanted it, she would definitely agree to it immediately.
It's a pity that people are looking at that girl Yangliu, not her own.
"It's for the sake of our daughter that we don't agree. He is a big family and can't afford it." Old Man Yang looked at Wu Youwei and found that he was not angry, and he was listening with a smile all the time, and his heart was even more uncertain... ..The most terrifying thing is a person who can't express his emotions or anger.